Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-12
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
The funeral of Rear Admiral Nicholson
q. 8. ~, took place in New York.
The English arbitration committee wer
received by the.presldent yesterday,
Isl Clair Boal, assistant United State
district attorney at Chicago, is dead.
A Iodper named Hennessey was killed il
row i'm New York lodging house.
E.. F. Holmes, deputy revenue collector
Alton, ILL.,, is missing. His accounts are al
right.
The Consolidated Cattle growers associa
4;on ia holding a national convention a
Kansas City.
The &C ,tr act is let and work will com
mence q, m e on the Davenport, Iowa and
Dakota railroad.
Disgusted with this tyrannical govern
ment the Mormons are now seeking home
beneath the mild sway of the sultan. They
have asked permission to establish com
mnnitv in Turkey, and it is thought thai
their request will be granted.
Cincinnati woman threw her child from
q third-story window, Tuesday, and then
iumped out herself. The child received In
iuries that are thought to be fatal, and the
mother was instantly killed.
An audacious thief stole $500 from the
Office of the park commissioners In Buffalo
during the temporary absence OF the ofhclal
in charge, and made good his escape, thougn
the theft was committed IN broad dayhght.
Attorney General Langley, of Nova Scotia,
is very much in favor of CONNER cha! union
between Canada and this country. He be-
Iieyes the question will come before the
81 of WoshIn Ofnn where
it will receive the support OF Secretary
Bayard, but be. antagonized by the British
and Canadian representatives.
Rev. Andrew Luce, pastor of the Presby-
terien church at La Gro, Indiana, had a
stroke of apoplexy, Sunday evening. and fell
dead in his pulpit.
Reports read at the meeting of the Illinois
training school for nurses, held in Chicago,
show that the institution is in flourishing
condition.
The big oil deal by which the production
is } be cut down one-half for the period of
one year has been contaminated, and Its
effect was felt Tuesday in the market.
The detect yes who are investigating the
Harm murder case think that they will soon
be able to solve the mystery. The deed Is
thought to have been committed by desper-
,ts characters of Rochester, Pennsylvania,
where the murdered man lived.
The confession of William Mundafrom,
who is in Jail at Waterloo, Iowa, for the
murder of Chris Hemme, caused such ex-
feared an attempt would be made to lynch
the prisoner. local militia company is
subject to the call of the sheriff should an
attack be made upon the jail.
Several important changes and appoint
ments have been made in the official list of
the Pennsylvania railroad for the purpose of
bringing about q reorganization OF the sys-
tenn.
The peace commissioners from Great
Britain were Hospitality entertained at Pitts
burgh, Wednesday, by Mr.. Andrew Car
negle.
At Lincoln, Nebraska, Wednesday, John
Fitzgerald, president of the Irish National
league of this country, gave banquet to
Arthur O'Connor and Sir Thomas Esmonde.
The governor of the state presided.
A highly sensational story is told of res
ident of British Columbia who sold his
daughter to Indians in order to procure
whisky.
At meeting of the National Butter, Egg,
and Cheese association, at Manchester,
Iowa. Wednesday, the bogus-butter question
was discussed at considerable length, and
resolut ons were adopted embodying the
sentiments of the association on the subject
and recommending legislation in accord
ance Herewith.
The coIored strikers on the Louisiana
plantations have taken to shooting the Ia
borers who remain faithful to their en-
ployers.
Evidence has been secured which impli-
Gates three men in the murder of Frank
Harm, who was found dead in carriage on
a freight car, in Chicago.
The chief of the fire department of St.
Louis is of the opinion that the recent ex-
plosion in that city, by which eight people
were killed, was caused by dynamite or giant
powder, and not by gas or gasoline.
By an oversight of the state authorities of
Georgia, Charlotte Jones, convict, was not
released at the expiration of her sentence,
and she has been illeg lily deprived of her
liberty for fourteen months.
A heavy gale on the English channel,
Wednesday night, caused considerable dam
age to shipping.
The New York chamber of commerce has
adopted resolutions favoring the peaceful
settlement of the fishery question, and has
appointed committee to investigate the
subject of commercial union with Can da. |
Hog receipts at the Chicago stock-yards |
are increasing and p,ices are declining |
Shipments to the east are falling off.
The Truro cathedral, which was opened
Thursday, is the first one that has been built
by the Established church in England since
he Reformation.
Editor O'Brien is lodged in commodious
cell eight feet long by six feet wide, and the
couch on which he rests at night is plank |
without superfuous bedding.
The Agrarian bank. of Moscow, recently |
put up at auction 4S0 estates, for which it |
vas impossible to pay the interest on the
mortgages.
Twenty-Five men were buried in lead
nine at Matlock, England, owing to an ex-
nlosion of fire-damp.
The British steamer Hawarden, which
oaded at Savannah with cotton, put into
Queenstown, Thursday, with her cargo on
ire. The FIRE was discovered Monday, and
hough every effort was made 1t was impos-
ible to extinguish it. $50
Uuited States custom-house officials col
ect duty of 20 per cent ad valorem on
hay, while the shippers contend
hat it should be only 10 per cent according